cskendrick Cruise Review on Symphony of the Seas on Aug 10, 2019

Symphony of the Seas Cruise Review

cskendrick

Contributor Level: First Mate

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Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 44

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 10, 2019

Ship: Symphony of the Seas

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

DEBARKATION Fast and easy to get off of boat CABIN Cabin was small. Had an interior room, bathroom seem smaller than most cruises i have been on, if i was a huge guy there would be no way to fit in there. The bed was hard as a rock but after getting used to it, it wasn't to bad. STAFF For me seem like everyone was super nice and polite. Didn't have a problem with anyone ENTERTAINMENT All the shows on board was great, top notch. I am not a big boardway musical kind of guy so hairspray was ok for me, but other shows were great too. The ice skating show was good but they fell at least 4 or 5 times. FOOD/DINING The food was great to me, the main dining area was kind of slow, the windjammer buffet the good for being a buffet , only down side for dinner is that almost everything closes except for main dinning and windjammer, except for the restaurants you have to pay, there was at least 2 or 3 places that are free closes at dinner time, which makes no sense unless royal is trying to get you to pay for the restaurants ONBOARD ACTIVITIES They have the flowrider, the rock climbing wall, pools and slides, hot tubs, which were all cool but once again all if not most of them close early, i think most of them close before 7pm, which maybe that is normal for all cruises. Also i notice that there was no big movie screen/outdoor tv like on other cruises i have taken, it would be nice to watch a movie or something by the pool. The casino was kind of small for being the biggest ship in the world, i think carnival had a bigger casino. EMBARKATION i would say that its pretty fast, but the traffic around the port was insane, i think it might took us 20 minutes to go 1/4 of a mile. They need to fixed that , heard alot of people saying that also ,that they built this new building but didnt plan on the traffic, we got there around 1030 or 1045am but they wouldnt let anyone on the boat yet , guess they were waiting to get people off the boat and through customs first, we only waited about 10 minutes until they started letting people on OVERALL Overall it was a fun time. The only major complaint was that they dont have wifi texting available yet unless you get the internet package. The said they had it when they launch the boat back last year but had a glitched in the system and wasnt working properly , suppose to get it up and running by the end of year

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cruisereckoning 4 years ago

Thanks for the review and so glad you enjoyed.

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twkendrick 5 years ago

I was on this same cruise and I was actually disappointed with Symphony. How can the pools and activities close before 7? This is ridiculous. Not on other ships. No movies to chill and watch by the pool. Not on other ships. No way to communicate to each without paying an arm and leg for internet package. A lot of complaints from other passengers about this. Not on other ships. Newest biggest ship, and this is what they offer.

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cskendrick 5 years ago

Sorry for the all jumble up words, it didnt come out right, when i wrote it, it was all spaced out

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